Collins, you can come by the house to test your wireless, since i lived close to you now.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Collins Richey</b> <<a href="mailto:crichey@gmail.com">crichey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Back to the topic at hand.<br><br>I spent a few hours this afternoon and evening working on my wireless<br>
(Atheros chip).<br><br>1. Found a report on Ubuntu forums that wicd (used to be Connection<br>Manager) would do the trick, so I removed Network Manager and<br>installed wicd. No results.<br><br>2. Lots more googling and foruming, but nothing turned up, so I did a
<br>little sleuthing and dmesging. No sign of a wireless card anywhere.<br><br>3. Finally the light bulb went on. The Ubuntu kernel upgrades don't<br>always upgrade everything related (piss poor design, IMO). I was<br>
bitten by that a few months ago with the nvidia modules on my desktop<br>system. So, I installed linux-restricted-modules-generic again, and lo<br>and behold it installed the correct version.<br><br>4. Reboot, and at least I got dmesg output for the Atheros card. I
<br>also got a popup with the standard Debian bullshit: you've loaded a<br>module that we don't like the looks of. Yes, I know it's proprietary,<br>so shut up and go away. Still no results from wicd. wicd presumes that
<br>the wireless is device wlan0, but the dmesg output indicated wifi0, so<br>I updated the preferences and tried again. No cigar. Enter iwconfig.<br>Aha, iwconfig thinks it's device ath0! Updated the preferences, and
<br>success.<br><br>5. Now I need to figure out how to put the wicd gui monitor in the<br>xubuntu panel. The wise ones in Ubuntu land have screwed with xfce<br>sufficiently, that nothing makes sense. I can get it there manually,
<br>ie '/opt/wicd/edgy-panel.py &', so all is not lost. The xubuntu 'add<br>new item' to panel function is brain dead - only certain<br>pre-determined functions can be added.<br><br>6. Now I need to take the laptop somewhere that has WEP to see if that
<br>wil work. My (part time) wirelss at home is totally unsecured.<br><br>Enjoy,<br>--<br>Collins Richey<br> If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries<br> of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.
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